Microbrewing continues to expand across the globe with many US communities utilizing breweries as new social venues to meet-greet and participate in social activities. What do you perceive as interesting research questions related to brewing science as well as the interaction and impact to local communities?
Hi Cory Jensen
You could consider the following:
- Overall impact on beer consumption in area with many microbreweries
- The different beer styles and ingredients that brewers are using in their beers, perhaps this is partly motivated by specific local ingredients e.g. herbs, spices etc. So can we say that brewing ingredients and techniques are slowly changing as a result of the expansion of microbreweries?
- On a more challenging note, you could consider looking into any negative impact,such as when microbreweries are set up in areas with limited resources like clean water
- Lastly, you could consider if these microbreweries do actually really bring people together i.e. do they really foster social interactions that would otherwise not occur in the absence of a microbrewery? Do small community members know and understand each other better because they meet in their local bar?
Ola Oladokun , I have a set of recipes I would like a graduate student to start work with on a natural language processing project, exploring differences would be interesting from many lenses. I also like the idea of further understanding first, the quality of utilized waters. Your last suggestion is also very interesting but perhaps the most difficult to control for and explore!
Robert Alexander Speers , I assume you are referring to production, i.e. brewing staff? Would you be interested in a cooperative survey from the Northern and Central Atlantic? If so we should have a deeper discussion.
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